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14 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

That kind of tacit knowledge is not easily captured in data and performance metrics, adds Sandino. “Amazon has been an expert on delivering non-perishable foods, but that is different than learning how to prepare certain foods, or knowing how customers want their View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

government no longer needed Yamato’s help. Soon after visiting the Tohoku area and seeing the devastation, Kigawa felt it was time to give back to an area that had previously boosted his business with the delivery of fish and agricultural... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

sailed back to South America and there was a celebration. But when Shackleton and his men returned to England no one seemed interested in polar exploration, in the Endurance expedition, nor in the incredible story of survival that Shackleton and his crew had to tell.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

help competing firms avoid the perils of cutthroat competition on one hand and price-fixing collusion on the other. The government can thus help them achieve the balance of healthy competition that is vital to sustained prosperity. Consider the commercial View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

allocation of resources was difficult. There was also the past legacy of vertical and horizontal integration, which left Unilever owning considerable parts of the value chain. Its trawlers caught the fish that was eventually sold in its... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

small fish in a huge, huge ocean. You won’t get into any of the accelerators. It's just too bro-ville." But Tuchman was determined to do business in Miami. “In San Francisco and New York you’re a small fish... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

said, “your combative comment to the guy who ate fish was really stupid.” “Stupid” stood out, coming from Doug, but it was accurate. Doug went on to argue, convincingly, that allowing the fish eater to claim... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

service-based economy, the convergence of industry boundaries, and the knowledge revolution. GE is the headhunters' favorite fishing hole. Out of that has come another project. The big change that is going on now—and what's behind the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

way things are, like water to a fish or the air we breathe. What's to notice? What's to change? To make progress on this problem, people must take risks, learn new ways, experiment. The notion that the basic organizing principles that... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

economic terms,” Gompers says. The higher returns could be due to one of several explanations, he says. For starters, since women face such a disadvantage in being hired in the first place, it is possible that those who do are exceptionally well qualified. “You are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

voters know who the big fish are. That is why when there are fewer audit firms there could be a greater concern on the firms' part about such political costs." Good For The Industry? There is a potential danger in this approach,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

2019
Chapter

A Decade of Democratic Decline and Stagnation

By: Laura Jakli, M. Steven Fish and Jason Wittenberg

Keywords: Democratization; Government and Politics

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24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

industry. The story of forester Ben Cone Jr. is a touchstone for ESA critics. In 1991, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found 29 red-cockaded woodpeckers, an endangered species, living on Cone's North Carolina land. Acting under the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

03 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

shark populations, which results in an ongoing decline, according to the 2013 study Global catches, exploitation rates, and rebuilding options for sharks. The extinction risk is considerably higher for chrondrichthyan fishes – sharks,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting

16 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

are a number of "chicken and egg" processes, or feedback loops here. I learned a saying in Chinese: "You can catch big fish in murky water." That means that the big fish are hiding when... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

interviewed have a broad view of their societal and ethical responsibilities. "It's not something that we went fishing for, but it came through very clearly that many of these people, some of whom came from great poverty, are aware of the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

the environmental challenges of climate change, scarce water, and depleted fishing stocks as well as by migration driven by both income inequality and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

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